WikiProject Clinical Trials snapshot of 2021 query results

WikiProject Clinical Trials snapshot of 2021 query results
December 2021
data results from project queries

Background
Wikidata is a community and database within the Wikipedia ecosystem.

WikiProject Clinical Trials is a community project in Wikidata to curate data related to clinical trials for its use in the Wikipedia ecosystem or export to elsewhere. Visit the project at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Clinical_Trials

About this data
Presented here is a collection of data snapshots which demonstrate model outputs of queries to the data which WikiProject Clinical Trials has curated in Wikidata.

Elements of these data snapshots which are worth consideration include these listed queries, the social and cultural need which these queries seek to fulfill, and the results of these queries. Beyond what these queries actually report, persons familiar with the field of clinical research are able to look at this information and consider the origins of some of it, note what data is here that would be difficult to find elsewhere, and also to imagine what data would be useful here but which is absent.

While these queries are representative of an early attempt of what WikiProject Clinical Trials aspires to deliver, for many variations of these queries, Wikidata's content is incomplete and there will be gaps. For example, the project acquired excellent data about the researchers, research publications, research projects, and research departments at Vanderbilt University. Consequently, these queries can profile that university relatively well. In comparison, the Wikidata has no comparable data collection for any other university, so there is incompleteness.

We share these datasets because reproducing the state of Wikidata for past times is difficult, and wish to report these results as a milestone of our progress till now.

Data snapshots

These datasets were collected 19 December 2021. See the original queries in WikiProject Clinical Trials.

1. Lists which order topics by count of clinical trials
   1. List of medical conditions, ordered by count of clinical trials which feature them
   2. List of research interventions, ordered by count of clinical trials which feature them
   3. List of research institutions, ordered by count of times each served as research site
   4. List of people, ordered by count of times each served as principal investigator
   5. List of funders, ordered by count of clinical trials
2. Example queries
   1. List of clinical trials where medical condition is Zika fever
   2. List of clinical trials where medical intervention is an instance of or subclass of a COVID-19 vaccine
   3. List of clinical trials where the place of research was Vanderbilt University or any of its research sites
   4. List of clinical trials where the principal investigator was Alp Ikizler
   5. List of clinical trials with principal investigator and their affiliation
   6. List of clinical trials where the principal investigator was affiliated with Vanderbilt University
   7. Bubble chart of organizations by number of clinical trials
   8. List of clinical trials where the funder was the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
   9. List of clinical trials where the sponsor was Pfizer
3. For conversation
   1. Count of the genders of principal investigators
   2. List of clinical trials where the principal investigator was female
   3. Count of principal investigators by occupation
4. Scope of Wikidata's content
   1. List of clinical trials
   2. Count of clinical trials
   3. List of clinical trial registries, ordered by count of clinical trials cataloged in Wikidata